Reuters: Danish inventor Peter Madsen appeared in court on Wednesday to appeal against a life sentence handed to him for murdering and dismembering a Swedish journalist on board his home-made submarine. Madsen was found guilty in April of murdering and mutilating 30-year-old Kim Wall on the craft in Copenhagen harbor in 2017. His lawyers said…
M Humayun Kabir: The US Embassy in Dhaka yesterday condemned the attacks on the protesting students who took to the streets demanding safe roads and justice for the deaths of their two peers in a road accident at the capital’s Airport Road. The US Embassy made a statement in this regard published in its official…
Desk Report: Facebook will build a $1.4 billion data centre in Singapore, its first in Asia and its 15th in the world. To be located in Tanjong Kling (formerly known as Data Centre Park), it will support “hundreds of jobs” and form part of Facebook’s growing presence in Singapore and the region, the company said…
Reuters: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday urged Iran’s armed forces to increase their power to “scare off” the enemy, according to his official website, as the country faces increased tension with the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump in May withdrew from Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers — a deal aimed at…
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam, Professor, Dept. of English, University of Dhaka: Any developed country needs skilled manpower since it is not possible to ensure sustainable development without skilled workforce. We hire managers from abroad, who take away $5 billion from us every year, mostly from the pharmaceutical and RMG sectors. The skilled manager is who…
Desk report Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stirred up controversy yet again when he said that women who have illegal abortions should be “punished.” His comments came during a heated interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, and he later backpedalled after his controversial comments garnered a lot of criticism said reports from AFP. Democratic frontrunner Hillary…
UNB: Six people were murdered everyday on average in the first month of the new year, the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) said on Thursday. A BHRC report documented 185 killings in January alone. ‘Soial violence’ claimed most lives (64), followed by deaths under unclear circumstances (36), killing by law enforcement agencies (18) and family…
BBC: Smokers looking to quit as part of the annual Stoptober campaign are being warned not to go “cold turkey”. Government health officials have said smokers stand a much greater chance of succeeding giving up by using official NHS support or turning to e-cigarettes. Research has shown only 4% of those who go “cold turkey” remain…
M Humayun Kabir: Some 19 former and current officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), including its managing director, have been sued over disappearance of 1.45 lakh tonnes of coal from the state-owned coalmine in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur. Anisur Rahman, manager (admin) of BCMCL, lodged the case with Parbatipur Police Station yesterday, said…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Citing “confusion” over his speech on the December 30 general polls, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder yesterday cleared that he did not change his stance and that his “speech of thanks should not be taken in a political manner”, reports The Daily Star. He made the remarks in a statement written to…